TY - JOUR
T1 - Our star
T2 - Amazigh music and the production of intimacy in 2011 Libya
AU - Tayeb, Leila
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/10/20
Y1 - 2018/10/20
N2 - This article explores the production and circulation of Amazigh music among Libyans between 2011 and 2013. It takes as a focal point the performance archive of Serbian-Libyan Amazigh singer Dania Ben Sasi, whose Amazigh-language music found unprecedented fame in Libya in 2011. Through close readings of her initial musical recording of that year, interviews with Ben Sasi and listeners, analysis of performances onstage and in daily life, and drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Libya, Serbia, and Tunisia, I present a brief history of a temporary moment of political possibility. I suggest that the formation of an intimate public around Amazigh music in Libya offered glimpses of an unfinished future in which popular practices of recognition could still be built.
AB - This article explores the production and circulation of Amazigh music among Libyans between 2011 and 2013. It takes as a focal point the performance archive of Serbian-Libyan Amazigh singer Dania Ben Sasi, whose Amazigh-language music found unprecedented fame in Libya in 2011. Through close readings of her initial musical recording of that year, interviews with Ben Sasi and listeners, analysis of performances onstage and in daily life, and drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Libya, Serbia, and Tunisia, I present a brief history of a temporary moment of political possibility. I suggest that the formation of an intimate public around Amazigh music in Libya offered glimpses of an unfinished future in which popular practices of recognition could still be built.
KW - Affect
KW - Amazigh
KW - Berber
KW - intimate public
KW - Libya
KW - music
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U2 - 10.1080/13629387.2018.1436651
DO - 10.1080/13629387.2018.1436651
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041495767
SN - 1362-9387
VL - 23
SP - 834
EP - 850
JO - Journal of North African Studies
JF - Journal of North African Studies
IS - 5
ER -